To straighten thin wire. Fix one end in the vice. Put the other end in a drill chuck and pull as hard as you can. Briefly start the drill. Don't try this on wire so thick that you can't resist the torque.
This also hardens the wire and makes it stiffer.
I use ski poles.
And I loved my Coyotes..until someone decided they liked em more than me.....shrug
They look good and they are definitely good for adding upper body exercise. I used a pair of trekking poles until they were destroyed, now the aluminum is being used. Every once in awhile, a carbide tip got caught in a sidewalk crack. If I didn't release the stick instantly, the tip was damaged. Eventually the end was destroyed.
The push stick isn't for exercise, it's for fun and for getting from here to there. Street skating is outrageous fun. Manual pushing is not part of the fun. Basically, pushing sucks when you're not trying to get exercise.
My big front wheel skates are better than Coyotes for rough terrain. Big wheels are great, but you only need a big wheel in front. The only thing that big trailing wheels do is raise your center of balance, that's not good. Yesterday when I took my most recent GoTail (inline skating push stick) out for a test run, somebody stuck their head out the car window and started asking me about the big front wheels on my skates. I get comments on them more than anything else so far.
Hardens it, yes. Makes it stiffer, no.
Hi, Go to hobby shop and get a piece of piano wire.
I've used real piano wire from a music store to make my own Bowden cables before in a pinch.
you say "like a guitar string" you know those are cheap too right?
nate
my thought too but a bike brake cable is going to be very limp. But if the OP can make that work that seems more OEM-like...
nate
As long as the ferules are clamped to the proper points and the cable is adjusted the flex in the rest of the cables length won't matter.
Why not just go to an automotive store and buy a universal choke cable. They are made to add a manual choke to any of the old carburetor cars, when the automatic choke becomes troublesome. I've used them myself. They are just a complete cable with a knob on one end and a mounting bracket to mount under your dash. If the auto parts stores dont have them anymore, try a tractor parts store. Many tractors used manual chokes and may still do.
That's interesting IMO.
FWIW... I usually adjust the torque setting, so it's usually not a problem. Like when doing stuff that requires little torque, I put the drill on the lowest torque setting, as a safety measure.
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Well... yes, that is correct if you use the technical definition of "stiffer". In the vernacular when applied to wire, "stiffer" usually means harder to put a permanent bend in it.
Right. But the vernacular can mean either. A lot of people believe that one equals the other -- that a wire that better resists bending also better resists springing.
It's a misconception that one person or another on this NG has to correct for someone every couple of months or so; not to be wise guys, but to help metalworking hobbyists understand a physical property of metal that often is misunderstood.
local store. Maybe it can be a plastic wire. It is for lengthening the thr ottle cable on a grass trimmer that I'm using for a project. I tried straig htening a wire, but it needs to be perfectly straight so that it doesn't ac t like a spring. Under stress, the engine sputters rhythmically. I'm sure i t's the wire acting like a spring. Then I will need to find a sheath, but I will go for the wire first. Thanks.
Hobby shop will also have sheathed control cable for model planes. In meta l and plastic. It has very little play as that would be problem on a plane control surface.
You can purchase straight wire at Fred's Heterosexual Wire company. ^_^
freds-nogaywire.com
TDD
local weld shop. Get a stick of bare brazing or welding rod.
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